There are certainly scholarships and lots of legal benefits available to the studentathlete that are not available to regular students. There are also most certainly a great many illegal benefits, the underthetable dealings, happening regularly at big and small schools alike. It's the nature of the beast and the beast must be fed..They also said that because the league and union remain so far apart on the major issue of how to divide revenue, there remains a significant possibility that the two sides will be unable to complete a settlement this week. That could result in a confrontation, with players decertifying the union and filing antitrust litigation against the sport's franchise owners, and the owners locking out players. The two sides also could extend their deadline again..

Curry will step into a linebacking corps that has been a strength of the Seattle roster for years. Expect LeRoy Hill, who got the franchise tag from the Seahawks, to switch to the weakside post f